Spout and housing



May 12, 1925.

A. ROGERS SPOUT AND Housme Filed March 5, 1921 Patented May 12, 1925.

- UNITED STATES ALFRED ROGERS, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

srou'r AND HOUSING.

Application filed March 5,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED Roonns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Spouts and Housings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to plumbing or bath-room-fittings, and-has for its object to provide a water-deliver spout and a noncorrodible detachable housing therefor.

On the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 represents in vertical section, on the line 11-, Figure 2, a spout and housin embodying my invention.-

igure 2 represents the same in front view, with the hose coupling in place.

Figure 3 represents a section on the line 33, Figure 1, with the washers removed.

Figure 4 shows the spout in end rear elevation.

The fitting, which I have selected as best exemplifying m invention is intended for use on bath tu s, sinks or other fixtures wherein there is a vertical wall through which a water supply pipe may be projected. Hence at 10 I have shown a wall which may be a portion of a bath tub, sink, hopper, or a slab located at some place where it is desirable to deliver water. This wall has an aperture 11, through which the threaded end of a su ply pipe 12 may be projected. A spout of brass or other suitable metal 1s shown at 13, which may be in the'form of an elbow and which is internally threaded at its inner side to receive the end of the supply pipe. Its inner end is also prefer ably provided with a circular 'peri heral flange 14, and in front thereof wit two radially-projecting locking lugs 15. At its outer end, the spout is internally threaded to receive a hose coupling 16 such as ordinarily supplied with bath tub spouts or faucets. This coupling has a knurled flange 161 at some little distance from its inner end, so that it is spaced from the outer or delivery end of the spout.

For the spout which I have thus described, I employ a non-corrodible housing 17 which may be made of vitreous chlna, celluloid, enameled. iron or other material which is not affected by air and moisture. This housing may be made in a variety of forms so as to present an ornamental a pearance while serving the utilitarian function of enclosingv andfconcealing the spout. For ex- 1921. Serial No. 450,076.

' ample, in the particular embodiment of the invention as illustrated, the housing is bulbous, or more or less spherical. It has on one side a circular dished flange 18, the end of which may be brought into plane engagement with the front face of the upright wall 10; and it has also an internal flange 19, which is less in diameter than the distance between the ends of the locking-lugs 15. This flange 19 provides an aperture 20 large enough to receive the flange 14 at the inner end of the spout, and it has two recesses 21, 21, through which the locking lugs 15 may be projected. The housing has also a circular aperture at 22, encircled by an annular flange or apron 23, the axis of which is perpendicular to the axis of the aperture 20.

The housing is clamped to the wall 10 by a metal nut 24, screwed on the pipe 12, and of a diameter greater than the aperture 11 inthe wall 10. To prevent injury to the parts in clamping the housing in place, I employ on the frontface of wall 10 a thick resilient washer 25 of rubber or other compressible cushioning material and a metal washer 26, both ofwhich are greater in diameter than the aperture 11, and which are located and concealed within the'fla'nge 18 of the housing.

The parts areassembled as follows :On the pipe 12 is placed the nut 24, and the end ofth'e pipe projected into the aperture 11 in the wall 10. The spout is inserted through the aperture 20 into the housing,

front end foremost, with ,the lugs 15 registering with the recesses 21, until the lugs have passed the flange 19, whereupon the housing and the spout are rotated relatively to each other through an angle of 90 until said lugs 15 engage stops 27 (see Figure 3.) formed interiorlyon the housin which brings the delivery end of the spout into registration with the aperture 22. Now the hose coupling is inserted through aperture 22 and screwed into the front or delivery endof the spout; The washer 26 and the rubber washer 25 are next placed on the protruding end of pipe 12, and then the spout 13 is screwed on the end of the pipe. The hose coupling 16, which projects through the aperture '22 of the housing, causes the housing to rotate with the spout, as the spout is screwed on the end of the pipe. After the s out has been screwed far enough to cause t e washer 25 to be somewhat compressed, and to bring the delivery end of the spout into proper position as shown in Figure 1, the nut 24 is now rotated to clamp the parts more tightly together against the wall 10. After these acts have been performed, the hose coupling may beremoved, and the, spout is entirely concealed within the housing.

Of course I do not need a hose coupling,

.as I may insert a stick of wood or any other element through the. flange 23 into the end of the spout to prevent the spout and housing i from relative rotation in attaching the parts to and removing them from the pipe 12. The rubber washer 25 should be sufficiently thick and compressible to enable one to bring the end of the flange 18 against or close to the front face of the wall 10, without danger of breaking the flange 19, in case the housing is made of china or other relatively brittle or frangible material. a

It will be observed that the housing preferably forms no part of the water conduit, so that, if it is broken, it does not interfere .with. the delivery of the water from the spout, although the flange 23 below the delivery end of the sp ut may, if desired, constitute an extension the spout.

I have not shown the usual valves by which the flow of water through pipe 12 and spout or elbow 13 is controlled, as these, per se, form no part of the present invention.

Having thus explained the nature of my said invention and described a way of making and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, what I claim is 1. A fitting for bath tubs and the like,

comprising an elbow-shaped spout, and a housing of noncorrodible material therefor having apertures registering with the inner and outer end of said spout and concealing said spout, said spout and housing having interlocking members which permit the de- 1 tachment of one from .the other.

2. In combination, a spout, a non-corrodible housing therefor, said spout being threaded to receive a pipe, locking lugs at one end of said spout, andinternal members carried by said housing interlocking with said lugs.

3. In combination with a wall having a hole therethrough, of a spout, a non-corwall and a second aperture at an angle thereto, an elbow-shaped spout enclosed by said housing with its inner and outer ends registering with said apertures respectively and having means for clamping said flange against said wall.

5. The combination with a threaded pipe, and an aperturedwall, of a spout screwed on the pipe, a housing enclosing said spout and having apertures registering with the inlet and outlet ends of the spout, and means for'clamping said pipe, wall, housing and spout against relative dislocation.

6. A spout housing consisting of a bulbous casing of noncorrodible material having apertures whose axes'areintersecting, said casing having annular flanges encircling both of said apertures.

7. A spout housing consisting of a bulbous casing of noncorrodible material having apertureswhoseaxes are intersecting, said casing having an internal flange with notches or recesses thereinand an external dished flange, encircling one of said apertures.

8. A fitting for bath tubs or the like, comprising a spout having its inlet end threaded, and also having radially projecting lugs at its inlet end, a bulbous houslng of noncorrodible material having apertures registering with the inlet and outlet ends of said spout and having internal members for engagement with said lugs, and a dished flange for engagement with the face of a wall of a fixture, and a compressible washer concealed in said dished flange.

9. A fitting for bath tubs or the like, comprising a spout having its inlet end threaded, and also having radially projecting lugs at its inlet end, a bulbous housing of non corrodible material having apertures registering with the inlet and outlet ends of said spout and having internal members for engagement with said lugs, a dished flange for engagement with the face of a wall of a fixture, a compressible washer concealed in said dished flange, a pipe threaded into the inlet end of the spout, and a nut on said pipe for engagement with the other face of such wall.

10. In combination with a wall having an opening therethrough and a pipe extending through said opening, of an elbow-shaped spout fixed at one end to said pipe, a casing surrounding said spout and having a pair of angularly disposed openings corresponding in position to the ends of said spout, and means carried atone end of said spout for engaging said casing about the margin of one of said pair of openings for retaining said casing in position against said wall.

11. In combination with a wall having an opening therethrough and a pipe extending through said opening, of an elbow-shaped spout engaging at its inner end the end of ment with said pipe, a casing enclosingsaid spout and having a pair of openings therethrough, one of sa d openings being provided with a marginal flange formed to receive a washer to effect a close joint with said wall surrounding said wall opening and the other of said casing openings being in substantial alinement with the outer portion of said spout, and means carried by said spout engaging and retaining said casing in position against said wall.

12. In combination with'a wall havin an opening therethrough and a pipe exten ing through said opening, of an elbow-shaped spout engaging at its inner end the end of said pipe, a casing enclosing said spout and having a pair of openings therethrough, one of said openings being provided with a mar ginal flange formed to receive a washer to effect a close joint with said wall surrounding said wall opening and the other of said casing openings being in substantial aline the outer portion of said spout,

and means carried by said spou, engaging said casing about the margin of one of said pair of openings for retaining said casing in position against said wall.

13. In combination-with a wall havin an opening therethrough and. a pipe exten ing through said opening, of an elbow-shaped spout engaging at its inner end the end of said pipe, a non-corrodible casing enclosing said spout and having a pair of openings,

,the inner of said openings being provided with a marginal flange formed to receive a washer to effect a close joint with said wall surrounding said wall opening, and the outer of said openings being in substantial alinement with the outer end of said spout,

and means carried by said spout engaging said casing about the margin of its inner opening for retaining said casing in position against said wall.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature,

' ALFRED ROGERS. 

